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No. 573,650. Patentedne. 22,1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL HAAS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y..

SKIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 573,650, aatea'neeember22, 189e.

Application iiled March 30, 1896.

Be it known that I, SAMUEL HAAs, of the city and county of New York, inthe State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inSkirts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to reversible skirts which will generally be madedouble and of two different materials or fabrics, so that the appearancemay be changed by placing one or the other side or face outward.

I will first describe my invention in detail with reference to theaccompanying drawings and afterward point out its novelty in claims. y

The drawings represent a reversible skirt made double for the purpose ofchanging its appearance in wear, one side or face being plain and theother side or face iigured.

Figure l is a front view of the skirt in the condition in which it isworn, representing the plain face outward. Fig. 2 represents ahorizontal section in the line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a front view ofthe skirt with the plain face outward, representing it as partlyunbuttoned for putting it on or taking it o. Fig. 4 is a Viewcorresponding with Fig. 3, but showing the iigured face outward.

Similar letters and numerals of reference designate corresponding partsin all the iigures.

The skirt may have only a single placket or may have two such plackets ab and a b', as in the example represented, extending from the waistdownward as far as may be desirable, the said plackets bein grepresented in front in the example, but they may be at any point orpoints in the contour. The description of the invention in detail withreference to one of these plackets, that a b, for example, will besufficient, as both are alike. This placket is shown open in Figs. 3 and4:.

The slit, which is made in the skirt from its upper edge as low down asis desirable to form the placket, has attached to one edge of it a iiyd, consisting of a strip of a suiicient width to contain buttonholes c.This iiy is intended to overlap the other edge, b, of the said slit, asshown in Fig. 2, when the placket is closed. The lower edge 5 of thisiiy, which is opposite the bottom of the slit or placket-opening, isleft free or detached from the adjacent parts of the skirt in order thatthe i'ly may serial No. 585,353. (Notara.)

be reversible from one side or face to the other of the skirt bypassing` by the edge h, and hence may always be brought to the outerside of the skirt whichever side is outward. At or near the edge b thereare attached to those parts of the skirt which the iiy is to overlap twosets of buttons d cZ-one set on each side or face-each of said sets ofbuttons corresponding with the buttonholes c c, so that whichever sideor face of the skirt is outside there are buttons to be received in thebuttonholes of the iiy when the latter is brought to the outside toclose the placket.

The waistband of the skirt is represented as furnished inside andoutside with an eye e to receive one of two hooks 6*, provided one onthe inner and the other on the outer face of the band. The waistband isalso represented in Figs. 3 and 4 as furnished between l the twoplackets with straps f f, to be fastened by a hook and eye g 7L.

The reversible skirt is provided with a pocket i, which is alsoreversible, the said pocket being sewed along one edge 6 of itshand-hole 7 or opening to the edge b or b' of either placket, the otheredge 8 of the hole being free or detached from all the other parts ofthe skirt. In Fig. 2 of the drawings the pocket is shown attached to theedge b' of one placket, and in Figs. 3 and 4 it is shown attached to theedge b of the other placket. This pocket may be turned to the inside ofthe skirt within the ily of the placket, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4,but in reversing the skirt and thus reversing the pocket the pocket mustbe turned inside out, so that the free edge Sis always on the outer sideof the hole 7 and the latter is accessible to the hand on partlyunbuttoning the fly.

It may be understood that a single set of buttonholes serves for thebuttons on both sides or faces of the skirt, thus constituting aduplicate set of fastenings, only one member of which-viz., thebuttons-requires to be actually duplicated.

When the skirt is made with two plackets, as shown in the drawings, thelies of the plackets may be made in reverse directions, as shownparticularly in Fig. l, the portion j of the skirt between the iiiesthus constituting a iiap.

Vhat l claim as my invention is- 1. A reversible skirt having one of theedges of its placket provided with an overlapping fly which terminatesdownward at the bottom of the placket-opening and the bottom edge ofwhich is left free or detached from the adjacent parts of the skirt tomake it reversible over the other of said edges from one side or face tothe other of the skirt, the said fly having a single set of buttonholesand the opposite edge of the placket being provided with duplicate setsof buttons one set on each side of the skirt so that the one set ofbuttonholes may engage With either set of buttons according to whichside or face of the skirt is outward, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination With a reversible skirt having one of the edges ofits placket provided with a lapping lv, of a pocket one edge of theopening of which is attached to the other edge of the skirt-placket, theopposite edge of the said opening being free to permit the turning ofthe said pocket inside out and the reversal of the said pocket to andfrom either of the reversible sides of faces of the skirt, substantallyas herein described.

SAMUEL HAAS.

lVi-nesses MEYER KLEINER, J. J. BARR.

